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Attractively designed and "extensively" illustrated with color photographs, line drawings, charts, and sidebars, this "contemporary" introduction to cooking and food preparation focuses on information that is relevant to today's aspiring chef. Comprehensive and well-written, it emphasizes an understanding of cooking fundamentals, explores the preparation of fresh ingredients, and provides information on other relevant topics, such as food history and food science. This introduction to cooking outlines professionalism, food safety and sanitation, nutrition, recipes and menus, tools and equipment, knife skills, kitchen staples, dairy products, principles of meat, fish and vegetable cookery, garde manger, baking, and presentation. For Chefs, Restaurant Managers and others in the food service industry.

ISBN-13

9780131713277

ISBN-10

0131713272

Weight

7.50 Pounds

Dimensions

10.90 x 8.60 x 2.20 In

List Price

$150.67

Edition

4th Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

1440 pages

Publisher

PRENTICE HALL

Published On

2006-01-31



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